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Furniture of the olden time (1913)

Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 255

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1760-1770. mother-of-pearl shades, copied from the originalpearl counters, which still lie in the little oval pools hollowed out for themin the mahogany frame.The fashionable gameat that date was qua-drille, which was playedwith these round andfish-shaped counters. Dr. William SamuelJohnson, the… … Tabl es n3 other gave it up with her Hfe. The same younggirls embroidered the screen in Illustration 257.Small wonder thev died young ! Far better the

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